Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
~By Matthew Fox ~
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
~By Tom Coburn ~
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
~By Lucan ~
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
~By Conrad Hall ~
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
~By Rod Serling ~
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
A child can escape the shadows.
~By Steve Largent ~
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
~By Jim DeMint ~
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
~By Roger Waters ~
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~By George Steiner ~
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~By Dale Turner ~
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
~By George W. Bush ~
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
~By David Hockney ~
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~By Aesop ~
Shadow owes its birth to light.
~By John Gay ~
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~By Thomas Browne ~
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~By Sam Snead ~
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~By Buddha ~
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
~By Thomas Hood ~
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
~By Martha Beck ~
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
~By Sophocles ~
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
~By Bill Nye ~
A little man often cast a long shadow.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
~By Amy Levy ~
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
~By Jane Grey ~
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
~By William Rehnquist ~
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
~By Kay Granger ~
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
~By Grandma Moses ~
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
~By Joseph Addison ~
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
~By Joshua Sylvester ~
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
~By John Ruskin ~
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~By Sam Snead ~
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
~By Debbie Allen ~
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
~By Sophocles ~
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
~By Lorna Luft ~
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
~By James Shirley ~
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
~By Albert Maltz ~
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
~By William Cowper ~
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~By Michelangelo ~
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
~By Francis Parkman ~
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
~By David Selby ~
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
~By Robert Jackson ~
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
~By Lao Tzu ~
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
~By Gary Kemp ~
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~By Aesop ~
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
~By George MacDonald ~
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
~By Esther Forbes ~
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
~By DeWitt Clinton ~
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
~By Gary Allan ~
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
~By Bill Wyman ~
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
~By Thomas Wentworth ~
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
~By Whitney Houston ~
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
~By Owen Hart ~
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
~By George Washington Cable ~
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
~By Allan Dwan ~
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